I’m not going to go into the whole background on Microsoft’s memo on Fred Vogelstein - other people can do that - but what did interest me was getting a look at the pre-interview notes a PR company will supply its clients with. Wired have a copy here; scroll down until you get to the […]
…is perhaps the least useful error message I’ve seen. Windows boot failures have obscure messages - “Invalid BOOT.INI”, “Cannot find NTLOADER” - but at least they’re unique enough not to crop up in ordinary conversation (and thus Search Engine Result Pages).
For the record, I was trying to install Fedora Core 6 on an Athlon64 […]
From the Wikipedia entry for a certain well-known drug for gentlemen’s problems (that I shall not name for fear of the ads Google would serve):
In the United States, Eli Lilly has a multiyear agreement to promote [A CERTAIN DRUG] with professional golf’s PGA TOUR.
I had a momentary “What the?”, but then I realised - a […]
From The Register:
Wired reports that the Marines successfully spoofed infrared imagery, producing the appearance of a legitimate combat engagement. Only a surprise confession by a Navy medic (or “corpsman”) attached to the unit led to the true events being uncovered.
I’m not posting this as a pro- or anti- war statement; it’s just that the idea […]
Sarah Brown says:
It is for this reason that I think fortune cookies are, in theory at least, the world’s best snack: they are sweet, they are crunchy, and they provide you with some light reading material.
From the Wikipedia:
The first location was opened in 1937 when William “Billy Goat” Sianis bought the Lincoln Tavern for $205 with a bounced check (he made good on it with the proceeds from the first weekend they were open). When the 1944 Republican Convention came to down, he posted a sign saying “No Republicans allowed” […]
One of the most interesting news stories of last year was the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning - the apparent assassination of a vocal critic of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), and the first known human poisoning using the radioactive isotope, Polonium-210. So what is this Polonium, anyway?
So, a couple of years ago I ran across Woot.Com. They’re the exact opposite of your usual DotCom online store - rather than many items available on a long-term basis, they sell one item a day, starting at midnight. The item remains on sale for one day until it sells out; at midnight they release […]
Candidates for British universities have been caught red-handed copying their applications from the Internet after hundreds mentioned “burning a hole in pyjamas at age eight” on their online entrance forms. Link
That’s Gold. If you’re going to plagiarise, at least pick something a little less unusual.